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To the Immortal Memory.....	5	22 Oct 2025 12:56 p.m. PST
Things around us	6	20 Oct 2025 9:14 a.m. PST
Happy 4th of July USA !!!!	18	11 Jul 2025 7:03 a.m. PST
The AWI Reenacted Today !	19	01 Jul 2025 8:01 a.m. PST
USA ARMY ... kick'n butt for 250 years !	23	29 Jun 2025 10:07 a.m. PST
Clint Eastwood's 95th birthday	6	14 Jun 2025 6:15 a.m. PST
Armed Forces Day USA	8	14 Jun 2025 6:07 a.m. PST
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Let's hear your Mandela effects.	11	17 Dec 2024 1:28 p.m. PST
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A US president who is close to achieving something important	14	10 Nov 2024 8:37 a.m. PST
9/11	20	17 Sep 2024 9:15 a.m. PST
August 25th 1944 : Paris liberated!	10	10 Sep 2024 9:58 a.m. PST
Ended WWII and Changed the World	11	11 Aug 2024 1:10 p.m. PST
Happy 4th of July	8	04 Jul 2024 1:19 p.m. PST
Happy Canada Day !	8	04 Jul 2024 12:34 p.m. PST
Waterloo 209th anniversary	7	28 Jun 2024 9:39 a.m. PST
Hamburger Hill	6	14 Jun 2024 2:24 a.m. PST
D-Day 6 June 1944	10	10 Jun 2024 6:05 p.m. PST
Memorial Day salute to a lost aircraft	5	28 May 2024 11:10 a.m. PST
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US Armed Forces Day	4	19 May 2024 5:51 p.m. PST
December 7th, 1941	15	08 Dec 2023 7:13 p.m. PST
Happy Veterans Day	10	14 Nov 2023 2:46 p.m. PST
Veterans' Day 2023	17	11 Nov 2023 2:28 p.m. PST
Happy 248th Birthday United States Marine Corps	7	11 Nov 2023 2:16 p.m. PST
USMC Barracks Destroyed 40 years ago.	12	30 Oct 2023 7:21 a.m. PST
Urgent Fury 40 years ago today ...	8	30 Oct 2023 7:02 a.m. PST
Never Forget	11	13 Sep 2023 7:14 a.m. PST
HAPPY INDPENDENCE DAY USA !	5	07 Jul 2023 7:20 a.m. PST
Juneteenth	24	21 Jun 2023 6:34 a.m. PST
US ARMY's B-Day	11	17 Jun 2023 4:44 p.m. PST
The Longest Day	15	07 Jun 2023 9:25 a.m. PST
Memorial Day 2023	3	29 May 2023 7:58 a.m. PST
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Armed Forces Day	3	29 May 2023 6:03 a.m. PST
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King Charles	23	08 May 2023 7:32 a.m. PST
Coronation of King Charles III - Military Rehearsals	3	06 May 2023 7:41 a.m. PST
Fall of the Alamo	43	15 Mar 2023 6:17 p.m. PST
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Pearl Harbor, 1941	11	09 Dec 2022 5:18 a.m. PST
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Marine Corps Birthday	7	10 Nov 2022 6:17 p.m. PST
9/11 ... It changed the World	18	10 Sep 2022 7:30 a.m. PST
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Glorious Glosters at Imjin River	22	09 Jul 2022 7:40 a.m. PST
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US Army's B-Day !!!	7	14 Jun 2022 2:08 p.m. PST
HAPPY B-DAY US ARMY !!!!!!!!!!	7	14 Jun 2022 10:09 a.m. PST
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US Memorial Day This Weekend	11	31 May 2021 9:29 a.m. PST
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